Education in Family Medicine : What has been achieved?

Contents: Education... historical landmarks - Pierre Mallia; The Malta College of Family Doctors and the Royal College of General Practitioners - John V. Howard; The MRCGP [INT] Qualification and Programme - Adrian Freeman; Malta from the view of an External Development Advisor - Jeremy Stupple; The Specialist Training Programme in Family Medicine - Malta - Mario R. Sammut and Gunther Abela; Psychometrics – MCFD/MRCGP[INT] summative examination - Dominic Agius; Continued professional development - Philip Sciortino; The Diploma in Family Practice in retrospect - Pierre Mallia; Report on MCFD Assessment Course - Renzo De GabrieleThe mission of the Journal of the Malta College of Family Doctors (JMCFD) is to deliver accurate, relevant and inspiring research, continued medical education and debate in family medicine with the aim of encouraging improved patient care through academic development of the discipline. As the main official publication of the Malta College of Family Doctors, the JMCFD strives to achieve its role to disseminate information on the objectives and activities of the College.peer-reviewe

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 1

“LAYING THE SINS OF THE L & N AT MR. BLOUNT’S FEET”: WILLIAM ALEXANDER BLOUNT’S U. S. SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN, 1910-1911 George F. Pearce MIAMI’S METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT Raymond A. Mohl GENERAL JOSEPH B. WALL AND LYNCH LAW IN TAMPA Robert P. Ingalls FLORIDA’S CATTLE-RANCHING FRONTIER: HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (1860) John Solomon Otto NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1983 BOOK REVIEWSBOOK NOTESHISTORY NEW

Reflections on the introduction of value added tax in the United Kingdom and goods and services tax in New Zealand

Twenty-two years ago (in 1985) the New Zealand (NZ) Goods and Service Tax (GST) Act was enacted. The Value Added Tax (VAT) in the United Kingdom (UK) has now been operational for over thirty-four years. VAT and GST are now an accepted part of taxation policy. Such controversy as remains is concerned with specific issues rather than the existence of the tax itself. However the specific form the legislation takes in each country differs and the process of introducing the tax can in hindsight be evaluated in order to analyse the rules, methods and techniques that have proved to be most efficient and effective

The Reykjavik Summit and European Security

Many West Europeans have agreed in retrospect that the most disturbing feature of the Reykjavik summit was the apparent "indifference or quasi-indifference" of the United States regarding European security interests. 1 This judgment is based on the specific arms-control arrangements that President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev discussed in Iceland in October 1986, plus the subsequent explanations of the U.S. administration. The Reykjavik summit also provided fresh evidence of the Soviet Union's more imaginative diplomatic style under Gorbachev and, more substantively, of enduring Soviet preferences regarding security in Europe

The vividness of the past: a retrospect on the West German Historikerstreit in the mid-1980s

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Prosecutorial Ethics in Retrospect

This essay examines the ethical regulation of prosecutors over the past three decades. The topic is important from the perspective of criminal justice, no less than legal ethics, because prosecutors are centrally responsible for administering the criminal law. Courts assume that the principal role in regulating prosecutors should be played by the states\u27 formal attorney disciplinary processes rather than by civil liability or judicial oversight in criminal cases. However, there has been a well-justified academic and professional consensus that the disciplinary processes fail to fulfill their expected role because, when it comes to prosecutors, ethics rules are neither sufficiently restrictive nor adequately enforced. Consequently, proponents of criminal justice reform seek to hold prosecutors more accountable for conduct that undermines the fairness and reliability of the criminal justice process, in part, by advocating for stricter ethics rules governing prosecutors\u27 work and stricter enforcement of existing rules applicable to prosecutors. Those seeking prosecutorial ethics reform face an uphill battle, however, given the significant political influence of prosecutors, who are armed with a checklist of justifications for opposing efforts to regulate their conduct more strictly through the disciplinary process. Consequently, holding prosecutors more accountable may require either developing and strengthening alternatives to formal discipline or restructuring the process by which ethics rules for prosecutors are fashioned and enforced

“The Dashing Subaltern”: Sir Richard Turner in Retrospect

When war came to Canada in August 1914, thousands rallied to the call to arms. Colonel Sam Huges the charismatic and controversial Minister of Militia and Defence scrapped his department’s meticulous plans for mobilizing the nation’s militia and assumed control with amazing, almost fortuitous, results. By September, 33,000 recruits were training at a hastily constructed Camp Valcartier, Quebec. A month later the first contingent of the legendary Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) sailed for England (the largest military force ever to cross the Atlantic up to that time)

Kulturunterschiede bei Mergers & Acquisitions: Entwicklung eines Konzeptes zur Durchführung einer Cultural Due Diligence

Several investigations came to the conclusion that, considering in retrospect, most Mergers & Acquisitions were not successful. Differences in the corporate cultures are often quoted as being responsible for the failures. So, the question arises how such failures can be prevented in future. Conducting a Cultural Due Diligence is a possibility to examine differences in corporate cultures, even before a merger takes place. That is why, after a description of general culture concepts, we discuss various attempts at Cultural Due Diligence of consultancy firms. Referring to these attempts at Cultural Due Diligence as well as to the general culture concepts, we draft a further developed concept at the end of this working paper

Compression of Morbidity: In Retrospect and in Prospect

By postponing the age at which chronic infirmity begins,disability and morbidity could be compressed into a shorter period of the average human life span, resulting in a society in which the active and vital years of life would increase in length, the disabilities and frailties of ageing would be postponed,and the total amount of lifetime disability and morbidity would decrease